Jan 20 2021
EHAB, a UK-based weather risk management platform that helps construction companies reduce the cost of weather interruptions, has raised further funding. English start-up, EHAB aims to help construction companies identify and plan for weather-related risks using decades’ worth of weather data. Its distributed ledger (blockchain) technology platform connects construction schedules produced in Primavera P6 to …
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Oct 09 2020
Prin-D targets firms acting as Principal Designer under the UK’s Construction Design and Management (CDM) health and safety regulations. Via a blog post by Imanuel Steele on the IET website (Tackling record-keeping challenges in the construction industry with technology), I learned about Prin-D, a Manchester, UK-based startup established in 2017 that has developed a ‘CDM2015 …
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Aug 08 2019
Continuing its 2019 spending spree and extending its international footprint still further, Germany’s RIB Software has taken a 15% stake [updated} majority stake in an Indian tech company, Winjit. In the latest in a series of 2019 investments, RIB Software, the Stuttgart, Germany-based provider of cloud-based technologies for the construction and real estate industries, has …
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Mar 25 2019
It might be something of an over-hyped industry buzzword, but blockchain is exciting academic and investor interest, with London-based Ehab an early beneficiary. When I wrote recently about blockchain for construction contracts, I was also reading a little more widely about blockchain in preparation for a technology lecture I gave to students at Middlesex University. …
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Feb 11 2019
Could new digital technologies such as blockchain or even video contracts take some of the administrative complexity and friction out of construction project delivery? Construction has long been a highly contractual and often adversarial and litigious industry. Its resistance to change (along with its learned friends in the legal profession) has perpetuated the reliance upon …
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